Inventor · Cupertino, CA, US

Richard K. Karlquist

24Patents
10h-index
11Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 29, 1986 → Apr 4, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6651488B2 Systems and methods of monitoring thin film deposition Physics 80 Expired
US6668618B2 Systems and methods of monitoring thin film deposition Physics 72 Expired
US6831491B2 Systems and methods for correcting phase locked loop tracking error using feed-forward phase modulation Electricity 71 Expired
US6781534B2 System and method for divisor threshold control in a modulation domain divider Physics 68 Expired
US6765519B2 System and method for designing and using analog circuits operating in the modulation domain Physics 65 Expired
US4785415A Digital data buffer and variable shift register Physics 46 Expired
US5729181A High thermal gain oven with reduced probability of temperature gradient formation for the operation of a thermally stable oscillator Physics 14 Expired
US8933706B1 Apparatus for measuring frequency change of an oscillator Physics 13 Active
US6686777B1 Phase detector having improved timing margins Electricity 13 Expired
US7106227B2 Method and apparatus for synchronizing a multiple-stage multiplexer Electricity 13 Expired
US7173995B2 Systems and methods for correcting gain error due to transition density variation in clock recovery systems Electricity 9 Expired
US9721759B1 System and method for distributing RF power to a plasma source Electricity 9 Active
US5148122A Atomic beam frequency standard having RF chain with higher frequency oscillator Electricity 7 Expired
US5708394A Bridge-stabilized oscillator circuit and method Electricity 4 Expired
US6922117B2 Lumped element transmission line frequency multiplexer Electricity 4 Expired
US8483318B2 Split band signal processing Electricity 3 Active
US7176447B2 Electro-optic delay line frequency discriminator Physics 2 Expired
US7095989B2 Frequency translating devices and frequency translating measurement systems with DC bias added to a mixer diode Electricity 2 Expired
US6765435B2 Phase locked loop demodulator and demodulation method using feed-forward tracking error compensation Electricity 2 Expired
US7245683B2 System and methods of recovering a clock from NRZ data Electricity 0 Expired
US6865345B2 Frequency translating devices and frequency translating measurement systems that utilize light-activated resistors Electricity 0 Expired
US8718590B2 Downconversion of comb spectrum Electricity 0 Active
US7177380B2 System and methods of recovering a clock from NRZ data General 0 Revoked
US6823466B2 Circuit and method for adjusting the clock skew in a communications system Physics 0 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.